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EU migration chief in Islamabad after suspension of deportation accord
EU spokesperson Ayesha Babar says Dimitris Avramopoulos's met foreign policy chief and interior minister on Monday
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What Britain is demanding from the EU to avoid 'Brexit'
These include decisions over the EU's single market, banking regulation and financial stability supervision
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Pakistan may review deportation accord suspension
EU representatives call on Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar in Islamabad
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Britain will stay if EU more flexible, says PM Cameron
The EU needs to be more flexible if it wants British people to stay in the bloc, says the premier
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UK's Cameron to give strongest warning over possible EU exit
Cameron's letter is expected to include demands such as barring in-work benefits for EU migrants for four years
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Four refugees drown, six missing off Greece-coastguard
Four people were rescued, the coastguard said in a statement
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UN raises alarm over sex abuse of migrant women, children in Europe
Some children appear to be engaging in 'survivor sex' to pay smugglers to continue their journey
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'Open the gate!': Migrants stranded on Balkan borders
With Hungary closing its border with Croatia to migrants at midnight on Friday, the flow has been diverted to Slovenia
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Czechs under fire for harsh, lengthy migrant detentions
The country's public human rights officer said conditions some refugees were kept in, were worse than in prisons
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Twelve migrants including children drown off Turkish coast -coastguard
Thousands of refugees, from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, make daily attempts to cross the Aegean Sea fromTurkey
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British PM's letter to EU will have 'a bit more detail': spokesperson
Cameron seeks to defuse fellow EU leaders' frustration by promising to send them his wish-list in early November
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European Union to fight rise in online hate speech
Facebook pledges to fight racism on its German-language network as Germany has become top destination for refugees
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First asylum seekers leave Italy under European Union relocation plan
The scheme follows months of tensions over the more than 600,000 people who have flooded into Europe this year
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Merkel declares asylum rules 'obsolete' as migrant talks opens
Merkel says a "new procedure" is needed to redistribute asylum seekers fairly throughout the 28-nation EU bloc
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How big is Europe's migrant crisis?
The creation of Pakistan in 1947 led nearly 14 million people to move, including Muslims in India who fled to Pakistan
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EU court strikes down transatlantic data deal in Facebook case
The Court of Justice declared that the (European) Commission's US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid
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EU tries to woo Erdogan in historic visit but division remains
The EU has been critical of a crackdown on media in Turkey, which languishes far down global press freedom rankings
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US-EU data deal at risk in Facebook case judgment
The case comes amid tensions between Brussels and Washington on issues of regulation
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Record 168,000 people reached Europe by sea in September: UN
Around 3,000 people have died attempting the journey since January
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Finland's hockey team urges anti-migration protesters not to wear its jersey
Former goalkeeper for the national team was not impressed by fans using national jersey as protest regalia
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EU court deals blow to 'invalid' US data sharing deal
The case stems from a complaint against Facebook lodged by Austrian law student and right-to-privacy activist
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Divided EU holds crisis summit after refugee deal forced through
Deal was not passed unanimously, showing sharp divisions in the 28-nation bloc on how to tackle migration crisis
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German minister urges Europe to pick up refugees from crisis regions
Nearly 2,750 people, including children and babies, have perished in the Mediterranean since the start of the year
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Walls and violence will not solve migrant crisis - EU Commissioner
EU commissioner said that barriers are temporary solutions that only divert flows of refugees to other countries
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European taxi drivers block Brussels over Uber
Across the globe, Uber has angered traditional taxi operators who say it represents unfair competition
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First migrants enter Croatia after Hungary seals border
Mostly Syrian or Afghan men, women and children crossed the border - which was marked by nothing more than a stone
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UN voices deep disappointment at lack of EU consensus on migrants
Several ex-Communist central European states still rejecting mandatory quotas of asylum seekers
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EU backs military action against Mediterranean people smugglers: sources
Decision comes as EU interior ministers meet in Brussels to try to agree on quotas for redistribution of migrants
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Denmark rejects EU refugee quotas
Like Britain and Ireland, Denmark has an opt-out on the EU's asylum policies
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'Flood gates are open': second wave of migrants eye Europe
Afghans are the second largest migrant group besides Syrians, arriving in Europe
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EU's refugee plan: how does it work?
The proposals, to be announced in the European Parliament, are aimed at relieving the worst refugee crisis since WWII
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EU lawmakers want full animal cloning ban
The European Commission is ready to ban animal cloning in the 28-nation bloc
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UNHCR plans for 450,000 Mediterranean refugees in 2016
In 2015, UNHCR anticipates that approximately 400,000 new arrivals will seek international protection
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Number of millionaire bankers in EU falls: watchdog
Bankers' pay faces curbs on how it can be structured since lenders were rescued by taxpayers during 2007-09 crisis
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France to take 24,000 refugees, Hollande warns of Schengen 'collapse'
Hollande warned that without a properly functioning EU mechanism to share migrants, the Schengen zone risked collapse
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New poll shows UK would vote to leave EU
Forty-three percent of respondents said they would vote to leave and 40 percent would vote to stay
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Berlin, Paris, London seek urgent EU meeting on migrant crisis
The call came after Germany's Thomas de Maiziere, Britain's Theresa May and France's Bernard Cazeneuve spoke Saturday
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Voicing concern: EU renews call for restoring ban on executions
Pakistan resumed executing death row prisoners this week after month-long break in Ramazan
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World's first malaria vaccine gets go-ahead from EU regulators
Global health experts have long hoped scientists would be able to develop an effective malaria vaccine
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After Iran deal, EU's Mogherini to visit Tehran, Saudi Arabia
EU's foreign policy chief to meet Saudi Arabia officials including the country's new foreign minister
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France says Britain EU referendum 'very risky'
The British population has gotten used to being told: 'Europe is a bad thing'
 
    







































